Statesman.
One of the highest ranking statesmen in the early Soviet Russia. He was the formal successor of Lenin as the Prime Minister of Soviet Union. Rykov was later tried and executed by Stalin.
Background
Lived: 1881-1938.
Alexey Rykov was born in a peasant family near Vyatka. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898 and chose the Bolshevik side.
Rykov took an active part in the Revolution of 1905 and became a leading member in the Moscow Soviet.
Career
After the October Revolution, Lenin appointed him a Comissar of the Interior in his government known as Sovnarkom. As the Minister of Interior Rykov was responsible for the implementation of war communism.
After Lenin’s illness, Rykov and Kamenev served as deputy Premieres. Rykov became the member of Politburo in 1922. When Lenin died in 1924 Rykov was elected Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (1924-30) and of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Alexey Rykov’s power was only formal. His political inefficiency and alcoholism led to the decrease of his influence. The actual leader was Stalin who had him expelled from Politburo in 1930.
Death
In March 1938 Rykov was tried and executed together with Bukharin, and Yagoda as part of the Moscow Purge Trials.
Alexey Rykov
Statesman.
One of the highest ranking statesmen in the early Soviet Russia. He was the formal successor of Lenin as the Prime Minister of Soviet Union. Rykov was later tried and executed by Stalin.
Background
Lived: 1881-1938.
Alexey Rykov was born in a peasant family near Vyatka. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898 and chose the Bolshevik side.
Rykov took an active part in the Revolution of 1905 and became a leading member in the Moscow Soviet.
Career
After the October Revolution, Lenin appointed him a Comissar of the Interior in his government known as Sovnarkom. As the Minister of Interior Rykov was responsible for the implementation of war communism.
After Lenin’s illness, Rykov and Kamenev served as deputy Premieres. Rykov became the member of Politburo in 1922. When Lenin died in 1924 Rykov was elected Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (1924-30) and of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Alexey Rykov’s power was only formal. His political inefficiency and alcoholism led to the decrease of his influence. The actual leader was Stalin who had him expelled from Politburo in 1930.
Death
In March 1938 Rykov was tried and executed together with Bukharin, and Yagoda as part of the Moscow Purge Trials.
Anatoly Lunacharsky